NServiceBus 6.2 losing messages with RabbitMQ - rabbitmq

I'm using NSB version6.2 and RabbitMQ version 4.
I'm using RabbitMQTransport. My RabbitMQ server is in a virtual machine in Azure. when I send messages, sometimes I'm losing messages without any error.
this is my NService Bus configuration.
EndpointConfiguration config = null;
string endpointName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("NServiceBus.EndpointName");
config = configEndPoint.IsNullOrDefault() ? new EndpointConfiguration(endpointName) : configEndPoint;
int maximumConcurrencyLevel = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("NServiceBus.TransportConfig.MaximumConcurrencyLevel").ToInt();
config.LimitMessageProcessingConcurrencyTo(maximumConcurrencyLevel);
int numberOfRetries = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("NServiceBus.TransportConfig.NumberOfRetries").ToInt();
var recoverability = config.Recoverability();
recoverability.Immediate(
customizations: immediate =>
{
immediate.NumberOfRetries(numberOfRetries);
});
DefaultFactory defaultFactory = LogManager.Use<DefaultFactory>();
defaultFactory.Directory(this.DatabusDirectory);
defaultFactory.Level(LogLevel.Error);
config.IdealinkJsonSerializer();
config.UsePersistence<InMemoryPersistence>();
config.SendFailedMessagesTo("error");
config.AuditProcessedMessagesTo("audit");
// configure transport
config.UseTransport<RabbitMQTransport>().Transactions(TransportTransactionMode.ReceiveOnly);
var endpointInstance = Endpoint.Start(endpointConfiguration).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

Configuration of your endpoint looks fine with an exception of persistence.
Persistence is used for features that are not supported by the underlying transport natively. For RabbitMQ, there is not native mechanism to send delayed messages. Until version 4.3 persistence was used to store timeouts. If you use InMemoryPersistence, none of the information will be retained after endpoint restarts. Timeouts are needed for Recoverability feature, specifically delayed retries. From version 4.3 and above, persistence is not required for timeouts, but InMemoryPersistence should still not be used. You can chose other persistences based on technology and scenario at hand.
Please note that version 4.0.0 is not under supported versions. You should update to 4.3.x or 4.4.x and verify the behavior to see if you notice a message loss or not. In case you still losing messages, I suggest providing more details such as log file and handler code. If you can't share that publicly, submit a support case.
Hope that helps.

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ActiveMQ failover transport options not working as expected

I would like to use the ActiveMQ failover transport as described in https://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html.
The default "retry forever" failover options work as expected.
However, since "forever" is sometimes too long, I tried to set some options in order to terminate the retry earlier.
For example, at startup I would like to terminate the application immediately if the connection to a broker can not be established at the first attempt.
I tried the simplest option:
failover:tcp://localhost:61616?startupMaxReconnectAttempts=0
but to my surprise, the retry goes on "forever" nevertheless.
I have tried many other combinations of options, like
failover:tcp://localhost:61616?startupMaxReconnectAttempts=0&maxReconnectDelay=10&maxReconnectAttempts=0&timeout=10
but without the desired result.
What am I doing wrong? How can I configure the failover transport such that it will terminate reconnection attempts at startup if a broker is not available?
I am using ActiveMQ version 5.15.9 (https://hub.docker.com/r/rmohr/activemq) and the Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ lib version 1.8.
The relevant code snippet is
var factory = new ConnectionFactory(connectionString);
var connection = factory.CreateConnection();
var session = connection.CreateSession(); // hangs here
There is Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ specific URI configuration: https://activemq.apache.org/components/nms/providers/activemq/uri-configuration which is not consistent with https://activemq.apache.org/failover-transport-reference.html, which brings a lot of confusion.
Following the NMS documentation I came up with a working solution:
failover:(tcp://localhost:61616)?transport.startupMaxReconnectAttempts=1
the composite URI must be in parentheses: failover:(tcp://localhost:61616)?... and not failover:tcp://localhost:61616?....
transport specific options must be prefixed with transport.
option transport.startupMaxReconnectAttempts=0 corresponds to infinite retries

NServiceBus 6.4.3 configured to MSMQ fails on startup

I am experimenting with using NServiceBus with MSMQ as transport. A very simple example:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var endpointConfiguration = new EndpointConfiguration("myappqueue");
endpointConfiguration.UseTransport<MsmqTransport>();
var endpointInstance = Endpoint.Start(endpointConfiguration).Result;
Console.ReadKey();
endpointInstance.Stop();
}
I have added the Windows feature Message Queue in and created a private queue called myappqueue.
When I run the application and get to the line with Endpoint.Start, I get this error:
Faults forwarding requires an error queue to be specified using 'EndpointConfiguration.SendFailedMessagesTo()'
What am I missing? This configuration is not mentioned in the samples on Particular's documentation site.
When an endpoint is created and operational, messages can fail processing. In that case, NServiceBus needs to forward failed messages to the designated error queue which you need to specify. EndpointConfiguration.SendFailedMessagesTo() is the API to use to configure what error queue to use.
You mind find this documentaiton helpful when configuring your endpoint for error handling. And since you're new to NServiceBus, tutorials can be helpful as well.

How to be sure that channel.basic_publish has succeeded (internet connection error, ...)?

Im doing this :
channel.basicPublish("myexchange", "routing", MessageProperties.PERSISTENT_TEXT_PLAIN,
"message".getBytes());
I would like to retry later to send the message if the publish didn't succeeded (connection loss, ...) but basicPublish is a void function and there is no callback in the arguments
Any idea ?
You are looking an HA client,
By default you have to implement the feature by your self.
If you use java there is :
https://github.com/joshdevins/rabbitmq-ha-client (it's just a bit old but it think it still work).
Anyway, if you want implement the functionality you have catch the exception and re-try later.
If the client lose the connection you should re-connect the client before re-send the message.
On the version 3.3.0 the last features is implemented by default to the java client:
java client
enhancements
14587 support automatically reconnecting to server(s) if connection is
interrupted
This point is very important you want send the messages sequentially.
A simple solution is put the messages in a client list and then remove the message from the list only if the message has been sent correctly.
I think you could find interesting also the Publisher Acknowledgements

WebSphere MQ 6.0: Can't switch from non-durable to durable

When I switch from non-durable to durable topic subscriber, I am unable to look up the topic name that I could read before (using JNDI).
It gives an error in the admin console as the topic is being looked up:
An error occurred during activation of changes, please see the log for details.
ERROR: Could not activate itft-jmsmodule!ITFT-JMS-1#ItftTopic
The Messaging Kernel ITFT-JMS-1 has not yet been opened
I am using Oracle WebLogic Server Administrative Console to set up the WebSphere queue. On the console, I made these changes:
For the Persistent Stores, On the Configuration tab, Added a file store called ItftFileStore
For the Persistent Stores, On the Configuration tab, Added a directory.
For the JMS Servers, On the Configuration -> General tab, Changed the Persistent Store to ItftFileStore
For the JMS Servers, On the Configuration -> General tab -> Advanced, Checked the Store Enabled field.
For the ItftTopic, Configuration -> Override tab, Changed Delivery Mode Override to Persistent.
This is the code which I am running. There are some comments on the pertinent lines.
public void start() throws Exception {
try {
LOG.info("Starting the FC MQ message consumer / listener ...");
InitialContext initialContext = getInitialContext();
topicConnectionFactory = (TopicConnectionFactory) initialContext.lookup(jmsFactory);
topicConnection = topicConnectionFactory.createTopicConnection();
topicConnection.setClientID(clientId);
LOG.info("1"+topicConnection.getClientID());
topicSession = topicConnection.createTopicSession(false, Session.CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE);
LOG.info("2"+topicConnection.getClientID());
//topicConnection.setExceptionListener(connectionExceptionListener);
jmsTopic = (Topic) initialContext.lookup(topic); // Error being thrown here
LOG.info("3"+topicConnection.getClientID());
//topicSubscriber = topicSession.createSubscriber(jmsTopic); // Works as a non-durable subscriber
topicSession.createDurableSubscriber(jmsTopic,subscriberName);
LOG.info("4"+topicConnection.getClientID());
topicSubscriber.setMessageListener(messageListener);
topicConnection.start();
The fundamental aspect of the problem is that you are connecting WebLogic to a Websphere JMS topic, this has become clear with the last edit of your question but it is not clear whether you are using WebLogic Messaging Bridge or not. The Messaging Bridge is the proper way of configuring a foreign JMS server in WebLogic. I suggest reading this FAQ and this how-to that is specific for Websphere.

How to manually set/propagate security context information e.g. Principal for JBoss 7 (over JBoss remoting 2)

I'm using jboss remoting 2.5.4.SP3 to provide remote access to EJBs in a JBoss 7.1 server from both a web app and other JBoss instances. I'm doing it manually because of issues with remote EJB access in JBoss 7.1, specifically (but not only) the inability to access the same (interface) bean on multiple servers simultaneously. I'm using remoting2 because remoting3 has no documentation.
I have remoting working using TransporterHandle/TransporterClient using the socket transport, but in methods called via this remote connection, the server wants to lookup the principal from the ejbContext. I can't find a way to manually set the principal, or other contextual security/identity information. At the limit I'd be happy just to set the principal when the ejb method is invoked - all incoming calls are to local EJB3 beans - or even to set it specifically for the EJBContext.
I've found a lot of information regarding Spring (which I'm not using), but nothing seems to match my particular context.
And now, the correct way to do this:
On the client side I get the security context and package up the security domain and subject info for transport to the server along with the invocation. The SecurityDomain is a String and SubjectInfo is serializable:
Map m = new HashMap();
SecurityContext securityContext = SecurityContextAssociation.getSecurityContext();
if (securityContext != null) {
m.put("SUBJECT-INFO", securityContext.getSubjectInfo());
m.put("SECURITY-DOMAIN", securityContext.getSecurityDomain());
}
response = remotingClient.invoke(request, m);
The map m gets sent with the invocation over jboss remoting. On the server side, I extract the security information and set the context for the invocation like this:
SecurityContext oldContext = SecurityContextAssociation.getSecurityContext();
SubjectInfo si = (SubjectInfo) invocation.getRequestPayload().get("SUBJECT-INFO");
String domain = (String) invocation.getRequestPayload().get("SECURITY-DOMAIN");
if (si != null) {
SecurityContext sc = new JBossSecurityContext(domain);
sc.setSubjectInfo(si);
SecurityContextAssociation.setSecurityContext(sc);
}
try {
return super.invoke(invocation);
} finally {
SecurityContextAssociation.setSecurityContext(oldContext);
}
Works like a charm!
Have a look at the jboss-ejb-client.properties. There is also a quickstart example using a remote client to lookup an EJB.
I've solved my underlying problem, although not in the general way I was hoping for.
I put a servlet filter on all incoming requests, recording request.getUserPrincipal in a thread local. I can then access this in non-EE code and find the principal making the request. Then when I make call to my app server I use JBoss Remoting's ability to attach metadata to each invocation to pass the Principal over the wire. I had to copy the TransporterClient to do this because it's private constructors et al don't allow for overriding the functionality required to attach per-request metadata (as opposed to per-connection). On the server side I take the incoming Principal and set it into a thread local. Then, in subsequent code that accesses EJBContext.getCallerPrincipal I also lookup the incoming Principal from the thread local, and if that isn't null (hence we are in a remote EJB call), I use that if the caller principal is anonymous. If it's not anonymous then it must have been set in some way after the incoming call, so I ignore the incoming Principal in that case.
All in all, a much more specialised solution than I was hoping for, and it doesn't shed any light on how I can do generic context propagation in JBoss 7.1 over the wire.